I feel like this should be caveated with a “long timelines have gotten short… within people the author knows about in tech circles”.
I mean, just two months ago someone asked a room full of cutting edge computational physicists whether their job could be replaced by an AI soon, and the response was audible laughter and a reply of “not in our lifetimes”.
On one side you could say that this discrepancy is because the computational physicists aren’t as familiar with state of the art genAI, but on the flipside, you could point out that tech circles aren’t familiar with state of the art physics, and are seriously underestimating the scale of task ahead of them.
I feel like this should be caveated with a “long timelines have gotten short… within people the author knows about in tech circles”.
I mean, just two months ago someone asked a room full of cutting edge computational physicists whether their job could be replaced by an AI soon, and the response was audible laughter and a reply of “not in our lifetimes”.
On one side you could say that this discrepancy is because the computational physicists aren’t as familiar with state of the art genAI, but on the flipside, you could point out that tech circles aren’t familiar with state of the art physics, and are seriously underestimating the scale of task ahead of them.